CABLE NEWS.
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Per Press Association.) LONDON,! March 20. The Governments of South Africa express sympathy with the Imperial General Staff scheme, but inform Mr Haldane, Minister for War, that nothing is possible in the shape of adopting it pending federation. Received March 22, 8.50 a.m. LONDON, March 21. The Vickers Maxim Co.'s workmen at Barrow were passing tho battleship Vanguard to the wharf when a gangway collapsed precipitating fifty of them to the wharf. Three were killed and forty injured. The intimation that the Emperor Francis Joseph considers war avoidable has favourably impressed Belgrade. The Times declares that the Archduke Francis and Ferdinando are of the same opinion. A party of Dutch peasants are seeking to emigrate to New South Wales on the same terms as the Russians previously mentioned.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8829, 22 March 1909, Page 5
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133CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8829, 22 March 1909, Page 5
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